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What is an affordance and can it help us understand the use of ICT in education?
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This paper revisits the concept of affordance and explores its contribution to an understanding of the use of ICT for teaching and learning. It looks at Gibson‟s original idea of affordance and at some of the difficulties long associated with the use of the word. It goes on to describe the translation of the concept of affordance into the field of design through the work, in particular, of Norman. The concept has since been translated into research concerning ICT and further opportunities and difficulties emerge. The paper locates key points of divergence within the usage of „affordance‟, as involving direct perception, invariant properties and complementarity. It concludes by arguing that affordance offers a distinctive perspective on the use of ICT in education because of its focus on possibilities for action.
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What is the modelling curriculum?
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This paper describes the benefits which might accrue from modelling as an activity for learners. Some approaches taken to teach modelling are discussed and criticised. The learners' purpose modelling is suggested to be critical in engaging them in this formal and theoretic field and it is suggested that presentation and communication of ideas in the context of project work may be appropriate. An analysis of parts of the modelling process is presented to highlight some of the hidden steps which appropriate modelling software may usefully expose. Finally some prototype software developed by the Integrated Modelling Project to explore these problems is described.
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What is the Modelling Curriculum?
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A paper presented at CAL 89 with Margaret Stevens and subsequently published in the journal Computers in Education
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What jobs do student researchers in Ultraversity do?
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This research booklet analysed the occupations of student researchers undertaking the work-focused learning Ultraversity degree.
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Why Should Techies Care About Education Theory?
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A brief overview of five of the 20th century’s most important educational theorists in the context of educational technologists need to make sense of learning theory.
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Working under Pressure
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A simulation of the design of a gas pipeline running from the North Sea to the city. Commisioned by British Gas.
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Workshop in Israel
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I was co-tutor with John Coll for this week-long workshop for the Kibbutz School of Education, University of Haifa to develop understanding of the UK experience of computer aided learning development and to encourage localisation efforts.
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Year 8 History at Sawyers Hall College
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I spoke to this class of school students about the Domesday Project using a live version of the original equipment and showing them the BBC's new web site which they could contribute to in there summer break.
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